© Elwood Herring 8/5/99
why am I me?
why am I not you?
I look at a mirror
what I see is not me
I see a face
eyes nose mouth hair chin cheeks -
that is not me
not I
I must be inside all that.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I am five
my sister told me
she is eight
I look at her
she is not me
when I think, I hear me
I never hear her
why not?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I am alone
in this strange new world
I think my thoughts
but nobody hears me
they take no notice
or are they just pretending?
but I can't hear them either
who did this to me?
and why?
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
if I am five
where was I before that?
I was somewhere
I can't remember
but I was somewhere
better than here
and there I was not me -
I was Us.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
but now I am here
just I
alone
nobody else is I
I don't want to be alone
I want to go back
to where I was before
I look in the mirror
at a strange face
and cry.
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